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Another Cavalier Followup

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

(For updates, see this page) First of all, there was some sort of hearing at the Public Service Commission about the whole matter. You can read details in this article at the Maryland Record (I emailed the reporter asking if there was a transcript). Some of the more interesting parts: Four complaints ...

Cavalier Followup

Monday, September 1st, 2008

(For updates, click here) After my initial post on Cavalier's energy surcharge, I filed a complaint with my state's Public Service Commission. The local paper also published an article titled "Check fine print on phone bill's energy charge, other new fees" by Dan Thanh Dang, published August 28th, 2008. I just ...

FRBRizing Amazon’s Catalog

Monday, March 24th, 2008

While doing research for a book data project, I stumbled on an interesting discovery. One movement that has being gaining steam recently among librarians and others involved with book information is FRBR which among other things seeks to link various editions of the same book together. For example, all of ...

PubMatic is Bad, Really BAD

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

About four months ago, I decided to try out a new ad optimization service called PubMatic.com. What this service is supposed to do is automatically optimize ads coming from multiple ad networks and display the one that will make the most money. I set it up in the beginning of ...

Installing Subversion and Trac on 1and1 Shared Hosting

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Installing server side components on shared hosting is always a challenge. In the last few weeks as I have begun to undertake more web based consulting assignments, I have found myself facing the need for source code management as well as project management. At my old startup, we use Subversion ...

Minor Updates for PublicDomainReprints.org

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Over the weekend, some minor updates were applied to the PublicDomainReprints.org website and service: 1. A separate RSS feed now exists for updates and blog posts. For now, the blog posts are being pulled out of my personal blog but as the service grows that will probably change. 2. An expanded IPR page now lists terms and conditions of originating archives. 3. The processed books page now has links to ...

Trying Out PubMatic.com Ads

Friday, November 9th, 2007

For the past few days I have been trying out a new ad service from PubMatic.com. They automatically rotate ads from different ad networks (in my case Google and Yahoo) and change colors to make ads more appealing. So far, I haven't made any more money than before plus the ...

Spreading Comment and Trackback Spam Through Zombie Browsers

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Since my move to Wordpress, I have been noticing a lot of funny track back hits going back to my old Movable Type installation. First of all, all of these hits were coming back from different IP addresses and different browsers. Second, they all had the same refer. Something was ...

Moving to WordPress

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

After many years of hosting this blog on MovableType, I am switching this blog and hopefully all of my static content to Wordpress. There is simply so much more user support out there for Wordpress than MT. Expect bugs for the next few days... UPDATE: The move is complete and seems to have worked. ...

“Private” Flag for RSS Feeds

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Bloglines, a web based reader, just came up with a proposal to restrict RSS feeds: http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0 The W3C has a similar (in spirit) proposal to use "?access-control?" instructions in XML standard itself. It restricts access by domain. This idea was also mentioned before by Greg Reinacker.